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Since 2012, Display Central has published roughly 60 articles that discuss the Oculus Rift. I’ve reviewed most of them and not one of them mentions the terrible image quality produced by the head mounted virtual reality (VR) system. A more common type of headline is “Oculus Rift at SXSW: Is Virtual Reality the Holy Grail … Read more
Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus has been hailed as 2014’s success story. Since launching its first device, the OnePlus One, in April, more than 500,000 units have been sold, co-founder Carl Pei told Forbes. These sales were achieved with an advertising budget of just $300! OnePlus aims to break 1 million sales by the end of … Read more
MediacityUK is a building in Manchester, owned by Peel Media. The company recently chose to use Optoma’s EH200ST projector in all of the location’s meeting rooms. The unit was chosen due to its wireless connectivity, brightness and short-throw lens.
ViXS has announced that its XCode 6400 decoder is being used in Panasonic’s new AX800 UltraHD TVs.
Panasonic Corporation saw net profit in the second quarter fall 30% to ¥43 billion ($375 million) from ¥61.5 billion ($536.7 million) in Q2 of last year, while turnover for the quarter was flat year on year at ¥1.8 trillion ($15.7 billion). The company’s net profit in the first six months more than halved from a … Read more
Parks Associates expects smartwatches and connected entertainment devices (including games consoles and streaming media players) to be among the most popular gifts given in the USA this Christmas. The trend will echo one seen across the rest of 2014, where 37% of smartwatches, 25% of streaming media devices and 20% of games consoles were received … Read more
Increased PC demand was the main driver for smart connected devices (SCDs) in Western Europe in Q3, which posted another period of growth. IDC’s data shows that PC, tablet and smartphone shipments totalled 60.1 million – an 8.6% YoY rise. As in Q2’14, PC shipments continued to rise, with demand moving to desktops and portables; … Read more
Pixelworks Inc. reported turnover for the third quarter of $17.1 million, which compares with $15.3 million in Q3 of last year, thanks to strong chip sales. The company recorded a net loss for the quarter of $2.3 million, while a year earlier Pixelworks posted a net profit of $1.5 million. In the nine month period … Read more
Planar Systems, Inc. has reported its fourth quarter and full year results, posting a net profit in Q4 of $2.2 million on turnover of $53.6 million, which compares with a net loss of $207,000 in the final quarter of the prior year, on turnover of $45.7 million. For the year, Planar swung into a net … Read more
Plastic Logic’s AMOLED technology has been recognised at the Global OLED Congress in Shanghai. The technology won the OLED Innovation Excellence Award. Plastic Logic’s flexible AMOLED displays are based on its own sub-100 deg temperature process organic TFT array.
PMA Research is to begin a flat-panel display tracking service, in addition to its projector tracking. The FPD Tracking reports will be compiled from monthly sell-through data provided by a panel of pro-AV dealers and integrators in the USA. They will highlight sales, revenue, brand shares and top models. The first FPD report, for September … Read more
In its autumn forecast, the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organisation has predicted 9% YoY growth in the semiconductor market this year, to $333 billion. All categories are forecast to have positive growth rates, with the strongest rises seen in Memory (17.3%), Discretes (12.3%) and Analogue (10.3%). Steady but moderate growth is expected in 2015, … Read more
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